Arrrghhh...I really get irritated with rules, regs, and policies that (I feel) are somewhat antiquated --- at least, when considering the current level of instantaneous transactional technologies.

What? I transferred $X.xx on the early morning of the 18th. TDA still doesn't have the $ cleared for trading on "non-marginable" securities.

Perhaps my irritation is with myself -- I should have known not to do it *that* way...I should have just wired the damn money.

aye yai yai

Well, I guess that means that I can do my *other* work today...

Have a great day, folks...

Ramsey

PS: My wife will be saying that it's The Universe *helping* me with the stock market

Hey Ramsey,

I have ran across that Rule T so many times and it is a real pain in the ass. I agree with the antiquated ruling on that, especially like with Scottrade. With Scottrade you can use the money immediately for stocks OVER a dollar, but under a dollar you are penalized for a few days. I don't know what sense that makes, but that is how it is.

Candle - yeah, I've thought (briefly) about switching to a margin account and decided that it's not exactly right for me. My thought is that *me* having a margin account would be like having a television in every room or, uh, living next to a casino.

Basically, I'm honest with myself at least insomuch as I know that I have an addictive personality with some things...and yeah, I don't *actually* have a huge issue with the time delays --- it *does* irritate me, though, on the technological side of the argument.

Bill:

Scottrade: uhg!

I have accounts with Etrade/Scott/TDA -- mostly this was to keep funds absolutely separate & to prevent accidents from happening and biting me hard down the line.

I opened the scott trade for my last Sirius buy -- the resultant shares were intended to play with.

I cannot begin to express how angry I was that that ONE buy cost me several hundred dollars!

I'm yet pissed about it, frankly. BUT - I can tell you this...I'll not buy any more stocks with the Scott acct, unless I absolutely have to...and, there will be only one sell order that goes through with them.

Candle - yeah, I've thought (briefly) about switching to a margin account and decided that it's not exactly right for me. My thought is that *me* having a margin account would be like having a television in every room or, uh, living next to a casino.

Basically, I'm honest with myself at least insomuch as I know that I have an addictive personality with some things...and yeah, I don't *actually* have a huge issue with the time delays --- it *does* irritate me, though, on the technological side of the argument.

Bill:

Scottrade: uhg!

I have accounts with Etrade/Scott/TDA -- mostly this was to keep funds absolutely separate & to prevent accidents from happening and biting me hard down the line.

I opened the scott trade for my last Sirius buy -- the resultant shares were intended to play with.

I cannot begin to express how angry I was that that ONE buy cost me several hundred dollars!

I'm yet pissed about it, frankly. BUT - I can tell you this...I'll not buy any more stocks with the Scott acct, unless I absolutely have to...and, there will be only one sell order that goes through with them.

Ramsey

PS: I see that the ROMOEFFECT is adding some juice to Spongee

Ramsey,

All of these brokers have something wrong with them, lol. Scottrade is good for big stocks, but is really a bummer with pennies. It isn't the worst though. If I get around to it, I will open another account somewhere. I get tired of it though.

She always *knows* when I'm working on making a *larger* buy/sell, cause I'll have all three accts up & streaming on three monitors

I tend to use TDA's Command Center with the most frequency -- lots of tools -- many that I don't *use* -- their streaming & level 2 is the most useful out of the three -- IMO

Ramsey

Originally Posted by billhart22

Ramsey,

All of these brokers have something wrong with them, lol. Scottrade is good for big stocks, but is really a bummer with pennies. It isn't the worst though. If I get around to it, I will open another account somewhere. I get tired of it though.